Hi,
The whole “path randomisation” feature of macOS is very odd.. what they do is
to set an extended
attribute to enable tranlocation (copy the whole app to a random path, start it
there).
This seems to be enabled when you look at a mounted .dmg file *and* when you
uncompress a .zip.
The flag is removed by the finder when copying to /Applications.
When you use a signed .dmg, the flag is turned off. When you start via command
line, the flag is ignored.
(this is my understanding of the whole mess).
But it might be that it depends, too, which which program you uncompress the
.zip...
you can check from the command line:
security translocate-policy-check Pharo.app/
Would not translocate
This whole mechanism is only a problem when the applications tries to access
files with a non-relative path.
That means that the packaged download where the sources and image are inside
the .app has a problem,
if you use the VM standalone with .image, sources and .changes, it should not
be a problem, I think.
> On 8 Jun 2017, at 10:05, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have latest macos sierra , dowload , opened and saved image for both pharo
> 6 (32 and 64 bit) and I see no problem doing that from the dowload folder
> without moving the apps to the Application folder. Am I missing something
> here ? Because when I dowloaded them there was a warning dialog that said
> that this would not work.
